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Where does “assignat” come from?

assignat (English) comes from French assignat, from French assigner, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

assignat (English): A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...

Definitions

  1. A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...

Ancestry of “assignat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchassignatassignat
2Frenchassignerto assign
3Old Frenchassigner—
4Latinassignō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →